Episode 8

The Dark Asteroid’s back on the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway) with news about his new store &mdash see the link, second from the top at the right &mdash and a new game to play with his listeners. Download this episode from the link below, or better yet use the link at the top right to subscribe and never miss an episode, and see whether you can guess the mystery TV theme before it’s revealed at the end of the show!

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Artists and titles from this episode included:

Joe Sibol — (Love with Ice)
Samantha Murphy — (Come Back to You)
John Zielman — (Dancing on my Grave)
Jasmine Ash — (Start Over)
David Henderson — (We Gotta Go)

Joe Sibol — Mixing and matching tones with words, smashing melodies together with poetry, Joe Sibol has been writing songs ever since he picked up a four track in college. Raised on the East Coast, in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York, Joe moved out west to join up with fellow songwriters, and played shows up and down the California coast. He crashed on sofas and floors and worked odd jobs as a gardener in order to work on his music and develop his songs. If you live in the Bay Area, keep a look out for Joe. He will be playing solo acoustic shows in the upcoming months. Find out more about the Joe at http://podsafeaudio.com.

Samantha Murphy — Samantha lives in San Diego and says, “I've been singing since I was six years old. I've traveled the world making and performing music. I've opened for some incredible artists like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.

I have my own Podcast called SMtv ~ A Podcast Dedicated to True, Independent Artists. Now available on iTunes 4.9 or at http://smtv.libsyn.com” Find Samantha online at http://samanthamurphy.com/.

John Zielman — John Zielman performs with a group called The Selves. His web site is  http://www.johnzielman.com/

Jasmine Ash — I could find very little about Jasmine other than that she is from the Portland, OR area. Her music can be found at http://podsafemusic.com.

David Henderson — David Henderson is one of Colorado's finest guitarists. He's a guitarist's guitarist combining over 30 years of rock, blues and jazz influences into an extremely dynamic, expressive, and truly emotional style.

David grew up in the Northeast - Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Boston, and Rhode Island. David began his musical career like many of his generation - watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Guitar quickly became his passion as he cut his teeth absorbing the rock classics of the late 60's, early 70's, and living with Allman Brothers Filmore East LP every day after school. Rock and Jazz fused in the mid 70's (Jeff Beck Blow By Blow) and captured David's imagination as he evolved as a musician. David graduated Berklee College of Music in 1982 and then moved to LA to take a shot at the musician's life. The mid 80's were the wood shedding years, where he played and practiced guitar virtually all day and all night every day. David played and toured with Stevie Woods (Let's Steal The Night) and Gina and Guy Eckstine (daughter and son of the late legendary Jazz singer, Billy Eckstine).

However in 1986, David abruptly left the music business entirely. His love for music was overshadowed by the economics, realities and hypocrisies of the music business. Totally frustrated by this realization, David put down his beloved guitar for 10 years, moved back to the Northeast and focused full-time on the television advertising business and raising a family. In 1990, he went back to school garnering a MBA from Boston University.

In 1995, the world was filled with optimism, creativity and innovation as the Internet revolution blossomed into full swing. As a co-founder and VP of Sales of DoubleClick in New York, David was a leading pioneer of the Internet advertising revolution.

While building DoubleClick, the guitar began creeping back into his life. David pulled the cobwebs off the old guitar and placed it right next to his desk. He would get a chance to play and practice every time Windows 95 would crash and he had to wait for a re-boot - needless to say that was a lot!

In 1998, David moved to Colorado to help build another Internet startup, Matchlogic (later purchased by Excite and then @Home). He formed a band called "Bandwith" with several of his co-workers and began to play live gigs again in Colorado.

In 2000 David left Excite@Home and became CEO of a wireless CRM messaging startup company, SmartPoint Inc. April of that year saw the dot com bubble burst and Venture Capital virtually dry up. SmartPoint would grow from 5 to 35 people then ran smack into the Venture Capital void and dot com depression and was forced sell off it's technology in late of 2001.

Today David is working on a number of startup businesses in the Media and Technology sectors. He also runs a community of Music Artist sites called The Online Discussion network where he builds community leveraging all the latest open source community and publishing tools - PHPBB, Blogs and Podcasts.

On the music front David is writing and recording his own music in his home studio, doing a lot of session work, as well as playing live with a number of bands in the Boulder community - The Henderson Brother's Band, The Old School Blues Band and a new original band coming soon!

You can find him on the web at www.dhenderson.com.

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